Senior Vice President, Mechanical Engineer - Buildings

This Opportunity

WSP has an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Senior Vice President, Mechanical Engineer with deep experience and expertise in the Property & Buildings Healthcare sector, based in Los Angeles, CA .

WSP Property and Buildings business line has seen rapid growth across multiple sectors in the last two years. This includes work at a wide range of healthcare institutions. This sector has seen many changes in patient care and space needs adapt post pandemic. Additionally, healthcare clients continue to seek innovative and creative ways to decarbonize their buildings and infrastructure. WSP bring a wide range of services and talented indications to answer these challenges. Come join our team and grow your career using your skills and experience to prepare our healthcare institutions for the next 100 years of innovation.

To respond to this growth, WSP’s Property and Building Business has an opportunity for a Healthcare Sector Leader to join our teams in California Region and beyond. This is a growth position for motivated candidates looking to expand their influence in the building industry. As a Senior Vice President – Healthcare Sector Leader, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow relationships in the healthcare market, develop strategy, lead pursuits and multidiscipline engineering teams. This position is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join our Midwest teams of experienced professionals in a leadership role and grow a team focused on Healthcare Clients.

Role & Responsibilities:

Business Development

• Externally focused on business development, client outreach, and pursuit management.
• Drive the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Mechanical Engineering work for WSP in assigned area of responsibility, with a focus on infrastructure opportunities in all disciplines (planning, design, and strategic consulting and program/construction management).
• Funnel information and communicate with the Marketing Team and Operations Team.
• Develop high‑level business contacts and a client base for providing high‑level mechanical engineering services, including identifying additional business development opportunities and cross‑selling other WSP capabilities.

Leadership

• Develop, coach, train, and value our people.
• Oversee the implementation of process changes.
• Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings.
• Resource projects and coordinate with other offices and business lines for intercompany work.
• Lead engineering discipline meetings and continuing educational opportunities, providing updates and recommendations to staff to foster innovation, development, and quality project delivery.
• Provide discipline leadership to multi‑disciplinary project teams and contribute to providing high‑level strategic advice to clients.
• Provide performance guidance and proactive leadership to assigned managers and staff.
• Collaborate with professionals from various disciplines to provide future‑ready solutions for clients.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision‑making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, adhering to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Technical

• Provide technical assistance on various engineering, design, and construction issues relating to automatic temperature control systems and specifications, air distribution (supply, return, exhaust), hydronic systems (chilled water, heating water, etc.), and plumbing systems (domestic water, waste, vent, storm, etc.).
• Remain current in the latest mechanical engineering techniques and practices.
• Serve as the engineering discipline’s representative/liaison to various external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry‑related groups, and government and community entities.
• Interpret and summarize data, including reports and documents for complex projects and initiatives that result in sound engineering and regulatory conclusions.

Project Management

• Lead and deliver projects with accountability for the profitable performance of individual projects and their successful completion within the specified area.
• Provide senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the engineering discipline and contractor negotiations.
• Oversee preliminary pricing development, risk analysis, and go/no‑go process during proposal and scoping phases.

Critical Success Factors

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to build long‑term, meaningful relationships with clients. Ability to translate complicated technical information into sales messages.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively, and craft approaches to challenging problems.
• Technical or A/E/C sales background required.
• Collaboration and a partnering approach.
• Excellent leadership and development skills.
• Ability to influence and gain buy‑in from clients and our team.
• Demonstrated Change Management skills and experience.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant post‑education experience in engineering, mechanical, and infrastructure design in the healthcare sector.
• Engineer license required (multi‑state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with mechanical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work‑related issues.
• Extensive advanced proficiency with building and infrastructure design.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant mechanical engineering and construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record‑keeping requirements, and the business impact upon the organization.
• Demonstrated ability with establishing, implementing, and managing multiple larger‑scale discipline‑related programs, documents, projects, and practices for a line(s) of business.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage staff, and effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, and company‑wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exits.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with office automation, load calculations, discipline‑specific design software (i.e., AutoCAD, CAM), technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools used in the corporate environment.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project‑specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Sustainability certification.
• 20+ years of relevant post‑education experience in engineering discipline and prior mechanical design experience.
• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline‑specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi‑project environment is highly desirable.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $194,900- $310,860

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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